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PHP function to display latest Twitter tweetWe decided to add our latest Twitter tweet to our home page as we like to micro blog. The question was how do we do it?
Twitter has various methods for data retrieval including, XML, RSS and their own API feeds that we could use. After looking at them all we decided to use the XML fee...
PHP function to summerise content in whole words substrWhen using content management systems or data stored in a database to populate a web page we often only require part of the data or a short summary to be displayed. Typically most systems use a function based around PHP's substr function to shorten the data. This however has disadvantages as often w...
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Mod rewrite Basics for SEO
Mod_rewrite is an Apache module. Mod_rewrite is a great way to make a websites URL's search engine friendly. The search engines don't like coming across a page with question marks in the href like 'index.php?page=home' and with mod_rewrite I will show you how that is possible.
This m...
Useful 404 error pages
After reading a few recent articles on custom 404 error pages we decided to come up with a similar system for ourselves.
It seems many web designers and web design company's for that matter still don't use or acknowledge the importance of 404 error pages. For the website user a ...
